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June 13-17, 2011
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Call for Participation

The AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2011 announces the 2011 Call For Participation.

Come talk to your peers about:

  • Completed projects
  • Work in progress
  • Theories
  • Best practices
  • Related research
  • Updates on previous talks

or anything else of note involving AFS and/or Kerberos.

The AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop is a week long conference for the novice and the experienced. The week is filled with two full-day classes introducing AFS and Kerberos and two and one half days of talks by your peers and colleagues. This year's workshop will be held at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, June 6 to 10, 2011.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Best practices
  • Performance tuning
  • Benchmarking
  • Server scaling
  • Service monitoring
  • AFS & Kerberos v5
  • AFS & Kerberos v5 related tools
  • Upgrade strategies
  • Unique uses of AFS and/or Kerberos Backups
  • Web integration Administration delegation
  • AFS and Kerberos v5 on non-Unix platforms
  • Automation
  • Work on new features

Past talks have included:

  • Using Kerberos for Web Authentication
  • Accessing OpenAFS Through The Web
  • Backup Strategies
  • A View of Rx
  • Kerberos & Grid Systems
  • Automated Keytab Installations
  • Site-wide Software Installation with OpenAFS
  • Tuning the OpenAFS Unix Client Cache Manager
  • Implementing Internet Storage Service Using OpenAFS Cluster
  • NetBSD, Kerberos & AFS: From Zero to Distributed File System in N Easy Steps

The Call for Participation will end Monday May 2, 2011. Acceptances will be made based upon quality, applicability, and fit with other submissions.

We look forward to hearing about your talk!  Click here to submit a talk.

The Workshop Organizers